I was poking around some code and decided to get my 'pings' working. A while ago I submitted my site to www.technorati.com for some vain reason, but tonight I actually got the ping service working. It's pretty cool.

Whenever I update my site, I can opt to ping Technorati. If so, PHP generates the appropriate headers and XML data and sends it to Technorati's RPC port and boom, Technorati crawls my site and feed looking for new content. I ran into some problems setting up the xmlrpc library for PHP at first, but I just changed some include paths and used my own .inc files in my own directory. Afterwards everything worked fine.